Truckers Love Coffee

(orginally blogged, Sept. 17, 2005, thank you google)

A Good Way to Drive Yourself Crazy.

I love to do internet searches and sometimes think of a subject, then google the subject just to learn as much as I can on the subject. It is a wonderful way to learn; but sometimes it can almost drive you bonkers.

If I should go stark raving bananas, google wouldn’t be responsible would they? Google is only a search engine, right? Well they are that and much more, but I don’t want to talk about the danger of a few people with an agenda of completely controlling the flow of the worlds information. For now, I feel quite comfortable with Google knowing almost everything about me, from my blog, my email and my internet searches. These three cyber activities all help Google to get a pretty good picture of me.

From a list of my internet visits from a Google search results page, it would be quite easy to figure out my political views, my religious views, my level of education and literacy.

I am going to study this Google phenomenon a little more in the future. It has profound implications of complications. WOW (did I really say that?)

I am a happy user of most of Goggles internet tools.

You haven’t really surfed the internet until you have taken that visual trip from cyber space right down to the street on which you live, and see your house or apartment building pictured right below you. Amazingly amazing, that is Google Earth.

Sanity’s Bluff is hosted for free on the web by Google, and for that I am loyal to Google when it comes to searching. I google some personally interesting subject almost every day, and I suspect millions do the same thing.

Google benefits from all of the services of theirs that I use. It seems like Google Inc. wants to know everything about everything and everybody, and I have no problem with that. I give it up freely for the rewards I get from searching, the free hosting of my blog, and free email and more.

But as was said earlier, googling can drive you crazy. Take this happening into consideration my friends.

While webloafing this morning, I came across a comment about boycotting Starbucks Coffee. Now that got my attention: I had to know why Starbucks should be boycotted.

My household goes through one pound of Starbucks coffee beans a week. Whoops, I forgot; a pound bag of coffee now has only 11 or 12 ounces in it. Anyway we use a bag of Starbucks a week. No good truck driver would dare face the road coffeeless.

So about this Starbucks Coffee Boycott, and the search on Google. This is one of those searches that you don’t want to go on…….I’ve done the groundwork, trust me on this one; IT WASN'T PRETTY.

On the first page of searching for Starbucks boycott, I learned that some Christians want everyone to boycott Starbucks because they sponsor gay pride activities in many cities in many lands.

I also learned that many Arabs and Muslims are calling for a boycott because the Starbucks C.E.O. is a Zionist. (Almost 64% of the world's population is Zionist, believing that the few surviving Jews, deserve the homeland that God gave them 4,000 years ago)

I learned that the company opened up 6 coffee shops in Israel only to close them down a year later because Muslims were calling for a worldwide ban of Starbucks.

I learned that more people called for a boycott because Starbucks abandoned Israel.

I learned that a lot of Christian conservatives are calling for a boycott of Starbucks because of a series of Hollywood and Media quotes from well know people. The neocons are complaining that only liberal writers are given space on the paper coffee cups, in a series called “The way I see it”

Can you say anal retentive?

Seriously, I am not going to join THE STARBUCK'S BOYCOTT! And I really can't tell you why, I am confused mentally about why I am not joining the boycott. Maybe I am thinking about joining on paper only; but will slip off secretly for a latte, and make secretive runs to the all night grocery store nearby at 4 am, when there are less people that can see me buy the 11 ounce pound of those magic beans.

And it makes me wonder, How could a Gay Arab Christian get a good cup of joe in Haifa?